CANCER TREATMENT
Some Encouraging Results
Chicago, October 13.
Professor Allan participated in the American College of Surgeons’ symposia on the importance of accurate hospital records and the national broadcasting of pre-natal care of women. He informed the Australian Press Association that the discussions at the congress indicated that cancer was curable in view of the encouraging results of treatment at American centres, emphasis being put on early diagnosis and further education of the public. Statistics were adduced of known cancer cures of all types without recurrence in’five years totalling 24,448. Professor Whitehouse, representative of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said that cancer was undoubtedly increasing in England and Wales, where 60.716 persons died of it in the last 12 months.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 7
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